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LiWoLi is a community festival, open lab and annual meeting spot for artists, educators and developers using and creating Free Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and Open Design in the artistic and cultural context. This event is all about sharing artistic skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of an open practice.

This year’s edition had a special focus on artworks that could be created, performed or exhibited outdoors and in public space and EXPANDERRR conducted a workshop on Swarming behaviour performance.

Very often the concept of swarming is used to notice and to find rule-sets or algorythms to rpedict individual behaviour in certain situations, as in public spaces and the impact of one´s individual self-perception when there is a set of rules that shape the swarming behaviour.

We wanted to go further using the concept of swarming as a basic set; enhancing it so we could collect individual notions and sense a societal and personal feedback on response to our collecitve action.

In the first phase of the workshop we introduced the swarming practice and the concept of city swarming as tool for social sculpture, challenge of the power and condition shaping behavior in different types of public space as to develop a series of swarming “performances” in public space. Therefor Phase I included the decision on the set of rules that would organize the swarming behavior and subsequently the swarms collective behavior.

The second phase was the swarming performance itself and the sensing part of it. It was the time to take consciousness of self-feelings, notions and reactions caused by the swarm.

To compare and discuss what as swarm particles we sensed and detected was the first outcome of our performance, yet receiving very good feedback from the participants and soon to be updated this part of the expierence, we already plan to make a second swarm workshop at the begining of juli!

The Workshop is not yet closed in terms of topic, as the main approach of the whole project is relational art, the workshop will be devoted in terms of it’s directional setting to be open to be shaped, both, in terms of topics and goals and third in decision taking of the modus operandi. Short put, the participants will decide like a flock of birds the direction of the collaborative process according to the needs and expectations of the participants and in respect of the limited given mains of production.

Fortunately Enrique Tomas (Quique), a member of servus.at, will participate at the workshop and will offer his ideas and knowldege too, what will enrich the workshop tremendously, as he is really offering a lot of expertise in various techniques and branches, both, of open source thougt and commitment and audio-arts.

MIchael Schweiger will provide the Soundstudio’s portable Studio, Mics and Recorders, some small speakers, one or two analog mixing desks and some piezo disks (yet prepared to use and some to be soldered and coated wirh liquid ruber) and some other mains for experiments, like breadboards and some circuit schematics and literature full of playful little basic experiments…

And of course both will share his approaches and ideas, as well as their love for audio works and audible experiments. They”d like to go for a group-work process leading to make the comtainer sound and interact with it’s surround. But this is merely a proposal.

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Professor at the Interface Culture Lab at the University of Art and Design in Linz, will provide a brief introduction into the various aspects of Free & Open Source licenses in the context of Media Art.

The Lecture tries to give a short glance on the development of electric and electronic music, definitely with no demand of completeness. The goal is to sketch some of the branches of the tree of emergence and development of both, electric and electronic music.

One focus will be put on background principles and technical as well as societal prerequesites which fostered these processes. Further one other focus will try to put the role of nationalist competition and war technologies as both, retrading as well as speeding up circumstances.

Finally a highlight will be put on electronic music as a field of different speeds and width, one in the field of very scientific and even symbolic capital enriching developments in the public and/or state driven big radio stations, research labs , in the era of the famous experimental studios and a sceocnd in the field of glam rock, psychedlic music and not to forget “kraut rock”

“Every social relationship is mediated by artifacts or human elements intervenedecisively in the relationship …)”2.

So we face an interactive installation in which the user through of ludic-interface, hybridof tennis racket and computer keyboard, processes by random the information storedin the computer, instant results in a fortuitous sequence of videos and sounds.

This game is about cultural space, segregation and changing the map of your city by exploring, dreaming, imagining and exchanging.

During the game you will place different cultural activities on the map of your city, where they are now and where you want them to be. There is already a set of cards with examples of activities and spaces that you start playing with, but during the game you as a player will be invited to make your own cards. These cards can show existing, favorite places of yours or places you desire or dream about – visionary places. The game will become a container of the players ́ personal places, ideas, thoughts and dreams, giving new perspectives to the layout of your city.

Anna Moreno, 1984 Barcelona, Spain, is a visual artist we had the pleasure to meet during her Artist in Residence at Atelierhaus Salzamt (Linz, Austria) in 2011. During her time in Linz she has made a Solo Exhibition “Learn Something Useful”. At bb15 Raum für Gegenwartskunst. Linz, Austria.

She will also take part in the Open Containerrr Project making a presentation of her work and an Open Dialogue about the Open Containerrr Project.